📖 Introduction
💚 In this insightful teaching, Master Woo Myung explores the relationship between health and the mind. Many people believe that a healthy body creates a healthy mind. However, according to Master Woo Myung, the order is reversed: only when the mind is healthy can the body truly become healthy.
A healthy mind is one that has no possession, no attachment, and no self. ✨ When the self disappears, the body becomes less susceptible to illness, and energy flows naturally.
True health does not begin in muscles—it begins in the mind.
🕊️ Original Writing by Master Woo Myung
How is health related to the mind?
People believe that a healthy mind resides in a healthy body, but they are wrong. Only when a mind is healthy can a body become healthy. This means the body is less susceptible to illnesses. A mind becomes healthy when there is no possession in the mind, which means there is no self. This is the best way to be healthy.
Physical exercise frees one’s diseased body from agony and delusions, and gives a sense of achievement through movement. Exercise does help physical health, but to maintain health with exercise, people have to be very diligent. People who work hard are healthy because they do not have time to plant disease in their mind. Although exercise keeps a body healthy, when people stop exercising, they will be even more exposed to disease. We cannot say which exercise is the best because every exercise has pros and cons.
Naturally, people who move a lot live longer, but the best way to be healthy is to leave everything behind. There is no better way to be healthy than getting rid of mind. When there is no mind within the true mind, energy and blood circulate smoothly and cure every disease in the midst of the empty mind. Thus, to live without mind is the best way to be healthy.
— Woo Myung
🌠 Reflect at Santa Clara Meditation
At Santa Clara Meditation, health is not merely physical condition—it is harmony between mind and body. 🌌
Exercise supports the body, but the deepest source of health is the absence of self-centered attachment. When the mind becomes empty and aligned with Truth, energy flows freely and life becomes balanced.
True health begins when the mind is free.
When there is no self, there is no disease of the mind.
